Hewlett-Packard's Cloud Front A Big Reason To Get In Now

By Vatalyst:Hewlett Packard (HPQ) is a renowned name in the lucrative diversified computer systems industry that is pretty much dominated by IBM. Basing on the prevalent fundamentals, it appears as if HP is bound on the hedges of disaster. In the same breathe the negative quarterly revenue growth of -7% extinguishes the hopes of recovery. A section of analysts in the critic disposition have even pointed out that HP may soon slip into the dreaded nonstarter category.In as much as the outlook bears some shred of logical sense, I choose to differ. I believe that HP is a sleeping giant that merely overslept. There is still some potential at HP and I am sure that a silver lining is certain to come. There is an incredibly huge gap between IBM and HP as IBM extends an eclipsing market cap of $231 billion- a multiple of HP's lesser $48 billion. ActuallyComplete Story »

IBM announced in a conference on Monday that it is expanding its geographical presence by introducing cloud server in additional markets. The company is looking forward to taking its corporate clouds to Italy, India, Canada, and Australia.
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) is looking to rent computation in more locations. “Mega clouds are great, but not that great if you’re not in their geography,” said IBM's vice president of standards and open technology, Angel Diaz.

ByAlex Cho:At the end of the 2013 fiscal year, (IBM) pretty much gave shareholders one promise: $18 in EPS by the end of 2014. While, this might sound unrealistic, fool-hardy, or perhaps flat out deceptive, there hasn't been a year in the past five-years that IBM hasn't grown its EPS figure.

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) reported strong earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2014 (1QFY14) yesterday, beating the Street’s estimates. The personal-computer maker reported earnings per share (EPS) of $0.90 on revenues of $28.2 billion, higher than the analysts’ estimates of $0.84 for EPS on revenues of $27.2 billion.

By Amal Singh:As the personal computer market is shrinking, hardware giants like International Business Machines (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) are diversifying into newer areas to attain growth. Among the most talked-about markets in IT solutions are cyber security and cloud computing.

By Anh Hoang:Earlier this week, Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman declared a disappointing outlook for fiscal year 2013. She said that the company made significant changes to the salesforce to improve selling and reduce costs. And it would take time to settle in. That is why people should expect a broad based profit decline in 2013.

By Income Hunter:IBM (IBM) reported first quarter earnings in April 2012, roughly one month before Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), with an earnings report that did not seem to surprise anyone in the investing world.

Morningstar submits: By Sunit Gogia The impact of cloud computing on the enterprise computing landscape is reminiscent of the shift from big mainframe systems to client server computing in the '90s. A step change in the economics of computing is driving this transformation and creating opportunities for new providers, while threatening the established business models of traditional application software and data center technology vendors.